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Source: China Daily USA
 
Xiao Li (not her real name), 30, walked into a clinic in the corner of Zhongshan County Hospital, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, greeted the doctor as an old friend and left about 40 minutes later with a three-month supply of medication, free of charge.
 
An AIDS patient, the tall, thin mother of two has been on antiretroviral therapy for a year at the health consultation clinic, which takes care of about 420 HIV/AIDS sufferers in the county, which has a population of 400,000.
 
"I set alarms to remind me to take my medicine every 12 hours and will strictly stick to that to survive — to see my children growing up," she said.
 
Xiao manages a smile when talking about her disease but tears flood her eyes whenever she mentions her children.
 
According to her doctor, Zhong Jie, Xiao is doing well and gave birth to a healthy boy in January thanks to the therapy that blocked mother-to-child HIV transmission.
 
When she was first diagnosed with AIDS last year, Xiao was weak and had poor immunity.
One-stop service, a new model project initiated last year, facilitated her quick access to the lifesaving antiretroviral therapy, taking only about eight days from HIV screening to receiving medication.
 
The process previously took two months on average, Zhong said. Patients also had to travel between facilities such as the county's disease control center, the county hospital and the city's CDC for different procedures, including HIV confirmation testing and treatment.
 
Under the new model, patients need only go to the county hospital. Public health workers at the county CDC help handle issues such as sending patients' blood samples to designated institutions for tests and contacting patients for health education and doctor visits. More…
 
02/08/2013
 
Source: China Daily
 
Liu Liping was busy trying to coax her student, "Little Monkey", to take his cold medicine.
 
The 9-year-old had a fever from sleeping under an air conditioner and almost burst into tears when he was told he might have to sit out a class trip to a theme park.
 
Liu has good reason to be cautious about the boy's health. Just like his 25 other classmates, "Little Monkey" is HIV-positive.
 
The students from Red Ribbon School in Linfen, Shanxi province, were among 103 youngsters from around China who recently enjoyed a six-day tour of Beijing's historic sites, parks and museums.
 
China Red Ribbon Foundation, a charity that helps people with HIV/AIDS, organized the event to raise awareness against discrimination.
 
Zhang Ying, chairman of the Fuyang AIDS Orphan Salvation Association, led more than 70 children from Anhui province, and about half were HIV-positive.
 
Twelve-year-old Gao Jun, who appeared in the Oscar-winning documentary The Blood of Yingzhou District, was one of them.
 
Life has improved since 2004 when the association began to help the boy, who lost his parents to AIDS, Zhang said. He is also in a video released by the national health authorities on Dec 1 that calls for elimination of discrimination against HIV carriers.
 
"It's hard to tell how many people the public service advocacy and the documentary he took part in have influenced, but becoming famous hasn't changed his life much," said Zhang, adding that now the boy lives in a place provided by the association together with four other HIV-positive orphans. More…
 
31/07/2013
 
Source: Daily Life Australia
 
Only when sun sets on the Southern Chinese city of Mengzi, do the roller doors of the city's red light district rise. They reveal tiny lounge rooms bathed in pink light where young women put on stilettos and apply makeup. Strangely intimate, domestic scenes where a poster on the wall of a naked couple hints at what's for sale. In the hours before the men of Mengzi end their workday - and theirs' can begin - the sex workers gossip and do each other's hair.
 
The rags-to-(relative) riches tale of this 300,000 person city in Yunnan province is textbook modern China, and with prosperity sex follows. Add increased internal migration, where job prospects may put hundreds of miles between husbands and wives, and a gender imbalance that's left the country with a bride shortage, and China's sex trade – though technically illegal - is suddenly booming.
 
In Mengzi, the 30 or so brothels of Zhao Zhong Road represent just one, highly visible, portion of the city's sex industry. And on the sliding scale they - along with hotels, massage parlors and KTV joints – are considered high end. Their sex workers range in their teens to late 20s, happy to make fast money over slogging for low pay in a restaurant or factory.
 
But further back in an older, shabbier part of the city is another class of sex workers. They work out of their homes, earn less and have little support on the occasion a customer is violent or leaves without paying. And with Mengzi just a few hours drive from the "Golden Triangle" of opium-production, some of these women do sex work to feed their crippling heroin addiction. In terms of social status they're just the gum on the bottom of the nation's shoe, but a priority for certain groups working to combat HIV. More…
 
28/07/2013
 
Source: Global Times
 
He Xiaopei clearly remembers the first time she met an HIV carrier.
 
It was 2003 and He was finishing her PhD on cultural studies with a dissertation about people living with AIDS in China.
 
"It was difficult. I spent three fruitless months looking for people willing to speak. Not many people would talk about their situation back then, and there weren't as many studies on such minority groups," she said.
 
Eventually, He found a man whose daughter had contracted HIV from a botched blood transfusion; he was suing the hospital and was eager to talk about the case.
 
He, who in 2007 co-founded the Pink Space Sexuality Research Center, provides a story-telling platform for minority groups, especially women and children.
 
The center is dedicated to giving a voice to the sexually oppressed, particularly women living with HIV/AIDS, sex workers, transgenders, women married to gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and women with disabilities.
 
Leaving Zhongnanhai
 
He worked for the State Council for 14 years, serving part of this time in the office in charge of reforming the Medicare system.
 
Back then she didn't have any idea about gender studies, let alone sex studies. When people asked her what she felt about gender roles, she replied: "It's equally good, whether you have a girl or a boy," reciting a government slogan aiming to prevent the abortion of female fetuses.
 
In 1995, He went to a UN women's rights conference that proved to be an eye-opening experience.
 
Many topics were discussed during the conference, such as the sexual rights of women.
 
He decided to further her study in this field. In 1999, she applied for a master's program in the UK on gender and development studies, although it was a decision that caused friction with her family. More…
 
24/07/2013
 
Source: China Daily
 
Cases of hepatitis C are on the rise on the mainland, but many don't get proper treatment because they are unaware of their diagnosis, experts warned.
 
According to Wu Zunyou, director of the National Center for AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Disease Control and Prevention, China reported more than 200,000 new hepatitis C cases on the mainland, a 185 percent increase since 2006.
 
Hepatitis C is an infection affecting the liver. About 80 percent of the infected develop a chronic infection.
 
With timely diagnosis and treatment, the infection could be highly prevented or cured, said Wei Lai, president of the Chinese Society of Liver Diseases of the Chinese Medical Association, at an awareness-raising event.
 
The event was held by the China Center for Health Education of the National Health and Family Planning Commission on Tuesday to mark World Hepatitis Day on July 28.
 
Government estimations put the number of sufferers nationwide at more than 10 million on the mainland but some experts said that was a serious underestimate.
 
Nevertheless, “the top challenge in curbing the disease is now detecting the sufferers”, Wei noted.
 
Currently, fewer than 2 percent of those diagnosed with hepatitis C have ever sought medical attention, he said.
 
“The percentage of those receiving proper medication is even lower,” he said.
 
According to Wei, a majority of sufferers experience minimal or no symptoms at first. But chronic infection could lead to cirrhosis or scarring of the liver.
 
Patients with cirrhosis are more likely to develop liver failure or cancer.
 
“Some simply miss the chance to get cured,” he said.
 
To address the problem, a nationwide hepatitis C screening program will be launched by the top health authority to help more sufferers for early intervention, he added.